Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vincent sur Jard. M. de Tremont told the old Tiger that he was only too glad to offer the place to him. The story of the old countess seemed the more amusing to me in that M. de Tremont is a bachelor. As he is very wealthy, I doubt very much that he would think of making money out of the last home of Clémenceau...
...intense appreciation of the good things of life; good wine, good music, were appreciated to the full; his capacity for enjoyment was not marred by any pangs of doubt as to whether the course he happened to be pursuing was right. It was always right-always inevitable. He once said that he never regretted anything he had done-his only regret was for the opportunities for enjoyment which he had foregone or missed. Above all, he enjoyed the success of his own policy and was rightly proud of the service he had rendered to his country and the great personal...
Pastor Helm's letter of resignation to the council said: "I doubt whether any church in the United States has a better background for the appreciation of the practical significance of the religion of Jesus than has Bethel. The first premise of Christianity and its most perfect synonym is brotherhood. To refuse brotherhood to any Christian is the oldest and most heretical blasphemy conceivable. American Christianity is . . . compromised and enmeshed. . . To refuse church membership to anyone not of the same race is to deny the most obvious teaching of Jesus and to give the ethical sanctions of Christianity to race...
...University coach, is greatly handicapped by the lack of space in the Big Tree pool, but he has had his tankmen in at the Boston Y.M.C.A. one night a week for some time. Eighteen of the 20 men out for the sport are Freshmen and these men will no doubt be the basis for the first Harvard team next year...
...makes such homely objects as a bucket and a rope scamper and talk worldly wisdom in a naive accent. And if you would find the love affairs of "The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock" amusing and enlightening you will proclaim "Fables" an important piece of workmanship. There is no doubt that this little book is very much the thing for the right people...